Exuberance is good.....

I've been surfing the net this afternoon (between reading legal brief, CEU material, and Federal Communications Commission F & O s (finding and orders)). It was hard to concentrate on those other things with all the exuberance and excitement in the kingdom of Left Blogosylvania over the Waxman hearings on the Plame outing which featured Valerie Plame Wilson herself.

I got to see some of the hearings on CSPan and also reviewed some of it on YouTube and it was fascinating that Valerie lived up to the expectations of everybody in Left Blogsylvania. For that matter, Waxman did also. Paul Hoades was a surprise...a bonus actually.

Most of Blogsylvania is absolutely giddy over the smackdown of Victoria Toensing by Waxman and other Democratic members of the committee when she trotted out the dead horse Republican talking points and held onto them tenaciously and heroically in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. When Waxman indicated he would "hold the hearing record open because of the conflicting testimony" it was a clear message to Toensing that she was bordering on perjury.

And if that wasn't enough....

CBS News says that Alberto Gonzales has a constituency of exactly ONE.... and that ONE happens to be a "pugnacious" President Bush. You can read more about it here...

Here's a quote that tells us what we've been dealing with for the past six years.

Republicans close to the White House tell CBS News chief White House correspondent Jim Axelrod that President Bush is in “his usual posture: pugnacious, that no one is going to tell him who to fire.” But sources also said Gonzales’ firing is just a matter of time.

So he's still "the decider"

The adrenaline is still flowing.....may not be able to sleep tonight...